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The Legality of Publishing Hacked E-mails
Were journalists right to be leery of the “ClimateGate” leak?
By Diana Dellamere Dec 16, 2009 at 12:52 PM
The publication of thousands of e-mails hacked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit led to furious arguments... More
Live Blogging “Starting Your Own Media Company” with Fred Wilson
By Diana Dellamere Dec 1, 2009 at 03:58 PM
CJR staffers will be live blogging this program at the Columbia Journalism School with influential venture capitalist, Fred Wilson. The... More
The FTC to the Rescue!
By Diana Dellamere Dec 1, 2009 at 01:36 PM
The Federal Trade Commission is holding a meeting today and tomorrow on the future of journalism. (No need to re-check... More
Steve Dahl Thinks You Aren’t Qualified to Comment on the News (and That He’s a Cockroach)
By Diana Dellamere Nov 12, 2009 at 05:25 PM
Steve Dahl, Chicago area radio personality and special contributor to the Chicago Tribune online, took to the Web to comment... More
Sad Stats from Seattle
By Diana Dellamere Nov 12, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Ruth Teichroeb, former Post-Intelligencer writer and current blogger, catches up with her colleagues to see where they are now--7 months... More
Q & A: Financial Times CEO John Ridding
How the Financial Times not only kept its readers, but even got them to pay
By Diana Dellamere Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM
While newspapers fight to stay afloat, the Financial Times is doing just fine. In fact, the paper has almost doubled... More
Lessons from the Birmingham Eccentric
How one community is saving its newspaper
By Diana Dellamere Aug 19, 2009 at 03:44 PM
A little blitz of good press for local news hit the blogs not so long ago: the Birmingham Eccentric, a... More
We Just Don’t Know: An Interview with Jonathan Glick
There may be a future for the news business, but it’s going to be unrecognizable
By Diana Dellamere Jul 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM
In the early 1990s, Jonathan Glick, a programmer and news enthusiast, approached The New York Times about taking the paper... More
The Huffington Post as Moral Compass?
By Diana Dellamere Jul 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM
The Huffington Post is-thus far-a success story for the hybrid news model of voluntary contribution mixed with professional journalism. Well,... More
OMG, Teens Are SO Over Twitter!
By Diana Dellamere Jul 13, 2009 at 03:00 PM
“Teenagers do not use Twitter,” declares Matthew Robson, teenage market analyst and sudden media guru. Pause for collective gasp. Everyone... More
Another One Bites the Dust…or, Maybe Not
By Diana Dellamere Jul 9, 2009 at 06:03 PM
No doubt, local papers are in trouble and some say big national papers will be the last standing. But there... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
